HARTFORD >> Democratic lawmakers in the House Thursday decided there wasn’t enough support for Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s bail reform proposal to take up the bill.

House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said there’s not a “comfort level” with the proposal to allow all non-violent offenders charged with misdemeanors to get out of jail on a promise-to-appear.

“There’s unanimous support for the concept and the principle,” Sharkey said outside the House chamber. However, legislators didn’t feel like they were part of the process and were unaware of the content of the bill, he added. There also was no attempt to make it a bipartisan bill.

“A bipartisan approach is necessary to ensure that this reform receives the support it deserves,” Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said Thursday in a statement.

House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, said the concept that people are sitting in prison because they can’t post a small bail amount is something that has bipartisan support. But when it gets to specific individuals and what crimes are covered “that’s where we want to pause and take a look at it.”

The legislation wasn’t available for most rank-and-lawmakers to read Wednesday night.

“There was almost unanimous support for the bill in general, but the process by which it was derived is something other folks want to have more of a role in,” Sharkey said.

Malloy did offer a compromise Tuesday when he removed a piece of the bill that would have treated 18- to 20-year-old defendants as juveniles. However, it wasn’t enough to make lawmakers feel comfortable with the proposal.